Widmann - Arche | ECM New Series 4817007

Widmann - Arche

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4817007

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 5th October 2018

Contents

Artists

Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Thomas E Bauer (baritone)
Gabriel Boer (treble)
Jonna Plathe (narrator)
Baris Ozden (narrator)
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Hamburger Alsterspatzen
Audi Jugendchorakademie
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Works

Widmann, Jorg

Arche: Oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra

Artists

Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Thomas E Bauer (baritone)
Gabriel Boer (treble)
Jonna Plathe (narrator)
Baris Ozden (narrator)
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Hamburger Alsterspatzen
Audi Jugendchorakademie
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor

Kent Nagano

About

For the opening of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, the German composer Jörg Widmann was commissioned to write a new oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra, Arche.

Widmann drew inspiration from the shape of the building itself: “From the outside it resembles a ship. To me, the interior looked like the hold of a ship, an ark...Re-emerging into the daylight, the ark idea would not leave me alone. The inflection of the music I had to compose was clear....”

Arche is a compendious work embracing the course of history in the west with a collaged libretto drawing upon a range of writers: from the unknown authors of the Old Testament to Nietzsche and Sloterdijk via Francis of Assisi, Michelangelo and Schiller. Arche looks at the tradition of the oratorio and transforms it.

Dieter Rexroth in the liner notes: “What immediately stands out is above all the impression of paradox and the vast diversity of forms and musical resources. Everything happens at once, everything interlocks. Every moment transports us into another world.”

Kent Nagano directs the massed musical forces with characteristic verve, clarity and imagination in this concert recording from the premiere performance in January 2017.

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